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Elena Pummer

Elena Pummer

Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Engineering

elena.pummer@ntnu.no
Vassbygget, 438, Valgrinda, S. P. Andersens veg 5
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About

Background

  • Dr.-Ing., RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2016
  • Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing., TU Darmstadt, Germany, 2011 

Research 

  • Hydrodynamic Processes
  • Geomorphological Processes
  • Hydraulic Structures
  • Flow and Sediment Interaction
  • Ethohydraulics
  • Experimental Modeling
  • CFD Modeling

PhD supervision/co-supervision & projects (selection)

  • HydroCen
  • COST Action: Pen@hydropower 
  • Jan Hrebrina: GLOF hydraulics
  • Subhojit Kadia: Supercritical flow and sediment transport
  • Joakim Sellevold: Culvert hydraulics
  • Nils Solheim: InSpillyFish
  • Ishwar Joshi: Mesmerize

Commitees

  • IAHR Committee on Hydraulic Structures
  • IAHR Europe Division
  • EERA SP2 & SP4

Distinctions and Honours

  • DTK & WasserWirtschaft (journal) - Studienpreis „Wasser- und Talsperrenbau“ 2019 (3rd)
  • Young European Talent 2018
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Award 2017
  • ICOLD Young Engineers Award 2017
  • Borchers Badge 2017

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category

2023

  • Kadia, Subhojit; Pummer, Elena Marianne; Kumar, Binit; Rüther, Nils; Ahmad, Zulfequar. (2023) A Reformed Empirical Equation for the Discharge Coefficient of Free-Flowing Type-A Piano Key Weirs. Journal of irrigation and drainage engineering. volum 149 (4).
    Academic article
  • Mulligan, Sean; Felder, Stefan; Pummer, Elena Marianne; Valero, Daniel; Heller, Valentin; Erpicum, Sebastien; Oertel, Mario; Bombardelli, Fabian; Crookston, Brian. (2023) Hydraulic Structures- At the Heart of 21st Century Global Sustainable Development. HydroLink. volum 1.
    Academic article

2022

  • Kadia, Subhojit; Rüther, Nils; Ismail, Albayrak; Pummer, Elena. (2022) Reynolds stress modeling of supercritical narrow channel flows using OpenFOAM: Secondary currents and turbulent flow characteristics. Physics of Fluids. volum 34 (12).
    Academic article

2020

  • Klopries, Elena-Maria; Wilmink, Anna; Pummer, Elena; Böckmann, Imke; Hoffmann, Andreas; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2020) Development and evaluation of an empirical equation for the screening effect of bar racks. Journal of Ecohydraulics. volum 5 (2).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena. (2020) Hybride Modellierung der hydrodynamischen Prozesse in unterirdischen Pumpspeicherreservoirs - Kurzfassung und Folgeentwicklungen. Wasserwirtschaft. volum 110 (5).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena; Richter, Wolfgang. (2020) Surge Mitigation for Pumped Storage Hydropower. HydroLink.
    Academic article

2019

  • Voßkämper, Berit; Kowalski, Julia; Dufresne, Anja; Pummer, Elena. (2019) Physikalische Modellversuche zur Bestimmung von Geschwindigkeitsprofilen granularer Murgänge. 49. IWASA Internationales Wasserbau-Symposium Aachen 2019: Naturnahe Gewässerentwicklung – Beiträge aus Praxis und Forschung.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Voßkämper, Berit; Kowalski, Julia; Dufresne, Anja; Schüttrumpf, Holger; Pummer, Elena. (2019) Dynamics of Debris Flow: Reproducible Initial and Boundary Conditions in Scaled Laboratory Experiments to Determine Velocity Distributions. 38th IAHR World Congress Proceedings: Water Connecting the World.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2018

  • Pedersen, Øyvind; Fleit, Gabor; Pummer, Elena; Tullis, Blake P.; Ruther, Nils. (2018) Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Modeling of Submerged Ogee Weirs. Journal of irrigation and drainage engineering. volum 144 (1).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2018) Reflection Phenomena in Underground Pumped Storage Reservoirs. Water. volum 10 (4).
    Academic article

2017

  • Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2017) Die Wellenbildung in unterirdischen Pumpspeicherreservoirs. Wasser und Abfall. volum 1 (2).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena. (2017) Water and Air Waves in very long Underground Pumped Storage Reservoirs. Hydro 2017 : Shaping the future of hydropower, Seville, Spain, 9-11 October 2017.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2016

  • Kreyenschulte, Moritz; Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2016) Analyse der Strömungsprozesse in unterirdischen Tiefspeichern von Pumpspeicherwerken mit Telemac2D. Wasserwirtschaft. volum 2 (3).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena. (2016) Hybride Modellierung der hydrodynamischen Prozesse in unterirdischen Pumpspeicherreservoirs. 2016.
    Doctoral dissertation

2015

  • Madlener, Reinhard; Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2015) Energy in the underground! Alternative technologies to pumped storage plants. RWTH - Themen.
    Popular scientific article

2014

  • Plenker, Desiree; Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2014) Tiefspeicherdimensionierung unterirdischer Pumpspeicherwerke - Numerische Modellierung. Wasserwirtschaft. volum 7 (8).
    Academic article
  • Schüttrumpf, Holger; Pummer, Elena. (2014) Unterirdische Pumpspeicherwerke - eine Alternative. Wasserwirtschaft. volum 1 (2).
    Academic article
  • Henkel, Sebastian; Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger; Schmitz, Martin; Schulz, S.-U.. (2014) Nutzungsmöglichkeiten und wirtschaftliches Potenzial deutscher Talsperrensedimente. 2014. ISBN 978-3-943566-15-4. DERA Rohstoffinformationen (23).
    Report

2013

  • Pummer, Elena; Lorke, Stefanie; Evers, Frederic; Nelihsen, Winand; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2013) Hybride Modellierung zur Analyse der Strömungsphänomene in Pumpspeicherwerken mit unterirdischem Tiefspeich. Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft. volum 9.
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Kadia, Subhojit; Pummer, Elena Marianne; Kumar, Binit; Rüther, Nils; Ahmad, Zulfequar. (2023) A Reformed Empirical Equation for the Discharge Coefficient of Free-Flowing Type-A Piano Key Weirs. Journal of irrigation and drainage engineering. volum 149 (4).
    Academic article
  • Mulligan, Sean; Felder, Stefan; Pummer, Elena Marianne; Valero, Daniel; Heller, Valentin; Erpicum, Sebastien; Oertel, Mario; Bombardelli, Fabian; Crookston, Brian. (2023) Hydraulic Structures- At the Heart of 21st Century Global Sustainable Development. HydroLink. volum 1.
    Academic article
  • Kadia, Subhojit; Rüther, Nils; Ismail, Albayrak; Pummer, Elena. (2022) Reynolds stress modeling of supercritical narrow channel flows using OpenFOAM: Secondary currents and turbulent flow characteristics. Physics of Fluids. volum 34 (12).
    Academic article
  • Klopries, Elena-Maria; Wilmink, Anna; Pummer, Elena; Böckmann, Imke; Hoffmann, Andreas; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2020) Development and evaluation of an empirical equation for the screening effect of bar racks. Journal of Ecohydraulics. volum 5 (2).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena. (2020) Hybride Modellierung der hydrodynamischen Prozesse in unterirdischen Pumpspeicherreservoirs - Kurzfassung und Folgeentwicklungen. Wasserwirtschaft. volum 110 (5).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena; Richter, Wolfgang. (2020) Surge Mitigation for Pumped Storage Hydropower. HydroLink.
    Academic article
  • Pedersen, Øyvind; Fleit, Gabor; Pummer, Elena; Tullis, Blake P.; Ruther, Nils. (2018) Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Modeling of Submerged Ogee Weirs. Journal of irrigation and drainage engineering. volum 144 (1).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2018) Reflection Phenomena in Underground Pumped Storage Reservoirs. Water. volum 10 (4).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2017) Die Wellenbildung in unterirdischen Pumpspeicherreservoirs. Wasser und Abfall. volum 1 (2).
    Academic article
  • Kreyenschulte, Moritz; Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2016) Analyse der Strömungsprozesse in unterirdischen Tiefspeichern von Pumpspeicherwerken mit Telemac2D. Wasserwirtschaft. volum 2 (3).
    Academic article
  • Madlener, Reinhard; Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2015) Energy in the underground! Alternative technologies to pumped storage plants. RWTH - Themen.
    Popular scientific article
  • Plenker, Desiree; Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2014) Tiefspeicherdimensionierung unterirdischer Pumpspeicherwerke - Numerische Modellierung. Wasserwirtschaft. volum 7 (8).
    Academic article
  • Schüttrumpf, Holger; Pummer, Elena. (2014) Unterirdische Pumpspeicherwerke - eine Alternative. Wasserwirtschaft. volum 1 (2).
    Academic article
  • Pummer, Elena; Lorke, Stefanie; Evers, Frederic; Nelihsen, Winand; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2013) Hybride Modellierung zur Analyse der Strömungsphänomene in Pumpspeicherwerken mit unterirdischem Tiefspeich. Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft. volum 9.
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Voßkämper, Berit; Kowalski, Julia; Dufresne, Anja; Pummer, Elena. (2019) Physikalische Modellversuche zur Bestimmung von Geschwindigkeitsprofilen granularer Murgänge. 49. IWASA Internationales Wasserbau-Symposium Aachen 2019: Naturnahe Gewässerentwicklung – Beiträge aus Praxis und Forschung.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Voßkämper, Berit; Kowalski, Julia; Dufresne, Anja; Schüttrumpf, Holger; Pummer, Elena. (2019) Dynamics of Debris Flow: Reproducible Initial and Boundary Conditions in Scaled Laboratory Experiments to Determine Velocity Distributions. 38th IAHR World Congress Proceedings: Water Connecting the World.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Pummer, Elena. (2017) Water and Air Waves in very long Underground Pumped Storage Reservoirs. Hydro 2017 : Shaping the future of hydropower, Seville, Spain, 9-11 October 2017.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • Pummer, Elena. (2016) Hybride Modellierung der hydrodynamischen Prozesse in unterirdischen Pumpspeicherreservoirs. 2016.
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Henkel, Sebastian; Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger; Schmitz, Martin; Schulz, S.-U.. (2014) Nutzungsmöglichkeiten und wirtschaftliches Potenzial deutscher Talsperrensedimente. 2014. ISBN 978-3-943566-15-4. DERA Rohstoffinformationen (23).
    Report

Teaching

Courses

  • VM8208 - Topics in Environmental Hydraulics and Hydrology
  • TVM5160 - Headworks and Sedimentation Engineering
  • TVM5125 - Hydraulic Design

Media

2022

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Kadia, Subhojit; Rüther, Nils; Pummer, Elena Marianne. (2022) Reynolds Stress Modelling of Supercritical Flow in a Narrow Channel. 9th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures . IIT Roorkee; Roorkee, India. 2022-10-24 - 2022-10-27.

2021

  • Academic lecture
    Doujak, Eduard; Hocevar, Marko; Pummer, Elena; Di Federico, Vittorio; Finger, David Christian. (2021) A concept for sustainable and digitalized hydropower going beyond the sustainable hydropower sustainability tool. General Assembly 2021 . European Geosciences Union; online. 2021-04-19 - 2021-04-30.
  • Academic lecture
    Kadia, Subhojit; Kumar, Binit; Pummer, Elena; Ruther, Nils; Ahmad, Zulfequar. (2021) Experimental and CFD Simulation Studies on the Flow Approaching a Type-A Piano Key Weir. General Assembly 2021 . European Geosciences Union; online. 2021-04-19 - 2021-04-30.
  • Academic lecture
    Kadia, Subhojit; Pummer, Elena; Rüther, Nils. (2021) CFD Simulation of Supercritical Flow in Narrow Channels Including Sediment Bypass Tunnels. 8th International Junior Researcher and Engineer Workshop on Hydraulic Structures (IJREWHS 2021) . National University of Ireland; IAHR; Online, Galway. 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-08.

2020

  • Academic lecture
    Pummer, Elena; Ruther, Nils. (2020) Sediment-handling in hydropower reservoirs. HydroCen Fagutvalgsmøte/forskersamling ; 2020-11-04 - 2020-11-05.
  • Lecture
    Richter, Wolfgang; Vereide, Kaspar; Pikl, Franz Georg; Pummer, Elena; Zenz, Gerald; Lia, Leif. (2020) Economic and Sustainable Energy Transition Enabled by Pumped-Storage Hydropower Plants. HYDRO2020 . Aqua Media; Online. 2020-10-26 - 2020-10-28.

2019

  • Academic lecture
    Pummer, Elena. (2019) Hydrodynamic processes in complex channel and circular designs of underground pumped storage reservoirs. 3rd International Seminar on Hydraulic Engineering and High Head Hydropower Research . TU Graz; Graz. 2019-04-23.
  • Poster
    Pummer, Elena. (2019) Sustainable Hydropower. EERA JP Hydropower Kick-Off Event - The way forward to hydropower research . EERA JP Hydropower; Brussels. 2019-09-09 - 2020-09-10.
  • Poster
    Pummer, Elena; Voßkämper, Berit; Dufresne, Anja; Kowalski, Julia. (2019) Debris flows modeling using reproducible initial and boundary conditions. EGU General Assembly 2019 ; Vienna. 2019-04-08 - 2019-04-13.
  • Poster
    Pummer, Elena; Voßkämper, Berit; Dufresne, Anja; Kowalski, Julia. (2019) Hybrid modeling of debris flows – Focusing on initial and boundary conditions. International Symposium on Mitigation Measures against Snow Avalanches and other Rapid Gravity Mass Flows . The Association of Chartered Engineers in Iceland (VFI); Siglufjörður. 2019-04-02 - 2019-04-06.

2017

  • Academic lecture
    Pummer, Elena; Schüttrumpf, Holger. (2017) Waves in underground pumped storage plants. 85th Annual Meeting of International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) ; 2017-07-03 - 2017-07-07.

2016

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Pummer, Elena. (2016) Underground Pumped Storage Plants: Hydrodynamic Processes in a new Technology. Hydropower Infrastructure Opportunities - Mexico & Central America ; 2016-09-07 - 2016-09-08.
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